This season Fordham took its basement-dwelling football team to a Patriot League title. Its women’s basketball team, however, seems to be on a different track in the Atlantic-10.

Georgetown (4-1) visits Fordham Thursday night for another mid-major tune-up tilt at 7 p.m. in the Bronx, N.Y.

The 0-8 Rams are coming off of an 86-62 loss to Iona on Saturday and have lost 13 straight games dating back to last February. Fordham’s poor start aside, it is still capable of an upset. In 2005, the Rams upended the Hoyas 68-62 in overtime in New York.

“First, it’s an away game,” Georgetown Head Coach Terri Williams-Flournoy said. “Last time we went to Fordham we lost, it’s a little bit of a revenge there. Regardless, it’s an away game which is always a little tougher.”

Fordham finished last year 3-25 and 1-10 in the A-10. The three wins were the fewest since 1970-1971, the first year of modern women’s competition, when the team went 3-7 including a 31-19 loss to Georgetown in an era when the Bee Gees were popular. With an influx of five freshmen, second-year Head Coach Cathy Andruzzi is still putting together a program that has not had a winning season since 1994-1995 and lost 82-52 to the Hoyas last season.

On the season, the Rams are shooting just 31.8 percent from the field and their leading scorer, freshman guard Megan Mahoney, is shooting just 32.6 percent. The Staten Island native was named to the New York Post all-city first team last year and averages 10.5 points per game and leads the team in steals with 14 for the season.

After Mahoney, junior guard Annie Zopf is averaging nearly 10 points per game but on 30.6 percent shooting. Freshman guard Kristina Bell and junior guard Takita Earl lead the team in rebounding, combining for 14.2 boards per game. Outside of those two, the Rams are thin at the post, getting outrebounded 316-274 this season, including 108-92 on the offensive glass.

The Hoyas are looking for another check in the win column against this seemingly weak Fordham team. “I think we stack up with them good. Their post play isn’t as good as our post play,” sophomore forward Jaleesa Butler said. If Butler, who leads the team in rebounding, senior center Aminata Diop and senior forward Kieraah Marlow establish position inside early, Fordham will be in for a long night.

While Fordham has not seen a victory in some time, Georgetown is on a bit of a hot streak. The Hoyas received a boost from Diop in their last game, a comeback win at Towson, to give them four wins in a row. The 6-foot-5 native of Senegal scored 12 points in the second half after Marlow picked up her fourth foul.

While Georgetown has the decided edge inside, both teams continue to struggle with turnovers. While turnovers have bothered Georgetown – they have 28 more giveaways than takeaways – Fordham has been downright tormented by them. The Rams have 165 turnovers to just 63 assists and two players, Mahoney and Zopf, have 34 of those 63 assists.

Georgetown is picking up wins against regional mid-major programs this season, similar to the seven consecutive games won during its out-of-conference schedule last season.

“I think it’s even easier to focus right now because when you start winning games it’s easier to focus on getting the next one and the next one,” senior guard Kristin Heidloff said.

Georgetown started its first two games of the season slowly by allowing opponents to keep the score close before closing out the game in its final moments. They showed progress against Navy on Nov. 20 by opening a 45-22 halftime lead and keeping the Midshipmen at bay.

“[I]t’s definitely going to be important to us to go out and get a lead early and let [Fordham] know it’s not going to happen again,” Heidloff said.